Military Revolutionary Committee

The Military Revolutionary Committee was a militant group of the Petrograd Soviet that was created on 25 October 1917 by the Bolsheviks under Leon Trotsky. The committee was the highest body of state power from November to December 1917, and Vladimir Lenin was the highest authority on the committee. In November 1917, the committee would take part in the October Revolution against the Russian Provisional Government, seizing the train station, telephone exchange, and post office of Petrograd and storming the Winter Palace. The Council of People's Commissars would take over the committee's functions in 1918.